Notice there is no mention of mineralized rocks in the following April 4, 2011 email to Brad Mix from Paul Jenkins, Subject: Basalt:

Any of you Committee members  starting to get the picture yet?

Maybe this will help.

Remember my article, NEW FOIPP DOCUMENTS REVEAL BRAD MIX COMMITTED PERJURY?  I publicly accused Brad Mix of committing perjury and I have yet to be charged with uttering a falsehood, or slander. or libel or anything. Why did members of the Committee not ask Brad Mix about his FMT project? If they really wanted to get to the bottom of things they would have…but it appears that is no longer in the cards for some reason:

Imagine, having an active FMT Project on the go involving countless communications and meetings with the sole director of FMT at the time, Paul Jenkins, and he says: “No. No. What does FMT stand for?” Unbelievable.

That’s why that one page chart I obtained in a much later FOIPP request is so significant, and gave me the confidence to make the public statement that Brad Mix had perjured himself by lying under oath about not knowing FMT in his sworn cross-examination testimony:

Notice that  Paul Jenkins was also on the Virgin Gaming Project team as a contact?  Why would that be? Because Paul Maines and Paul Jenkins had recruited Virgin Gaming.

And notice as well that BRAD MIX was the CONTACT for the FMT Project within his Division, and that Patrick Mason (the person who undertook the feasibility study of FMT in preparation for Brad Mix’s Division then preparing and providing FMT with a recruitment package).

Any of this sinking in yet Special Committee on Records Retention members? Anything?

Back to my Basalt FOIPP request that wasn’t really about getting Basalt records…it was a strategic step leading to the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Order that the Special Committee on Records Retention is investigating.  I still can’t believe I was never approach or asked for the correspondence I accumulated over the year and a half-long investigation by the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Karen Rose. They would have understood the real significance of the Basalt FOIPP request.

I knew – or strongly suspected – that Brad Mix’s records had all been deleted for the two-year period when he did all of what he did with FMT and lied about in the CMT law suit. Everything was denied, and Brad Mix had maintained that denial before the Special Committee, notwithstanding the fact that I’ve already proven those claims are lies – proven mostly with Brad Mix’s own records that I obtained in other PEI government employee inboxes with whom Brad Mix was communicating, or from the CMT filed documents.

Paul Maines had filed documents on Basalt in court which he had because he was copied on them, or had perhaps been given by Paul Jenkins. I wanted to see if those same documents still existed in Brad Mix’s email archives and would be produced.  They weren’t. I then submitted copies of them to Ms. Rose asking why I hadn’t received them from the public body.  She in turn  asked the Public Body (Deputy Minister Erin McGrath-Gaudet) and the Public Body didn’t even bother to answer Ms. Rose:

And that was the beginning of the end for Brad Mix’s and Erin McGrath-Gaudet’s coverup about the deleted records as Ms. Rose persisted in asking about why my Basalt records were missing!

That is also – Committee members –  why there was an Order, why you, Peter Bevan-Baker, put forward Motion 86 – whether you realized it or not at the time – and why your Committee called Brad Mix before your committee.

But hey, if you want to believe Basalt is just a mineralized rock because you’re willing to take Mr. Mix at his word there really isn’t much more I can do about it.  Disgusting!

Final Note to Committee Members:  You might be able to fool the majority of Islanders that you’re serious about exposing corruption with regards to the pandemic of record destruction we’re dealing with in Government, but it is now obvious to me that the committee is just playing games.

Why didn’t someone ask Brad why – if he was being so transparent –  he and David Keedwell, and then he and Erin McGrath-Gaudet  – strung me along for months and months with the lie that they were searching for records when they knew no records existed to search?

The “transparency” Mix spoke about several times would be called a well-planned alibi in some quarters.  He apparently became that his records went missing only after he heard about the CMT lawsuit. There is no way the PEI government would win a law suit with all the documented evidence in Mix’s records – some, but far from all,  I’ve noted in this article.

Those records had disappear or else CMT would go be able to go to trial, expose everything, and most likely win the lawsuit. They disappeared. They were “deliberately deleted” according to the Information Commissioner, and Ed Malone with ITSS said the only person with Access was Brad Mix and they could not have been deleted accidentally, but were deleted with “intent.”  Brad Mix told the committee that the only other person who had access to his emails was his assistant, Pam Gorveatt (although he didn’t mention her name), and said she was completely trustworthy and would never have deleted the emails.  Who does that leave? Do the math.

So, as Brad indicated, he went looking for an email at that time because the CMT law suit had begun, and he had been made aware that his records were going to be searched and scrutinized for “relevant material”. He knew that, and his boss at the time, Neil Stewart, another defendant, knew that as well.  Lots of Defendants knew that the case would be won or lost on whether Brad Mix’s records were entered or deleted and that chapter in the PEI government CMT/FMT business relationship history erased. They were deleted.

But that might become known at some point, especially since Paul Maines had knowledge that records should exist. Brad was well aware that Paul Maines, and many others, would KNOW that he really did have a dynamic business relationship with CMT/FMT/TBT long before the MOU period. If questions were ever asked about those deleted records down the road, Brad knew he’d need an alibi, and reporting the missing records to ITSS (but still keeping it covered up and internal to government) was really the only alibi available.

Brad calls that his commitment to transparency for which he shouldn’t have his reputation sullied; what does he call lying to me for a year and a half?

I give up.  You might as well take Brad’s advice and ask Government to do more to protect the innocents, as Brad so eloquently stated in his closing remarks.

Summary

There’s one more meeting of the Special Committee on Record Retention scheduled before the next sitting of the House begins:

These are three KEY witnesses. If committee members lob easy questions asking them to teach them what they should have learned in preparation, then they’ll do exactly for them what they did for Brad Mix. The right questions need to be asked, and that takes a lot of work.  Because I’ve already done that work, I’d be happy to give the right questions for free if they’d ask, but that would involve wanting to get to the bottom of things for starters, and I’m no longer convinced that’s the objective.

Brad Mix continues to receive a full salary with our tax dollars and is the very most senior person recruiting businesses notwithstanding the fact that I’ve laid out publicly more than sufficient evidence to lay criminal charges. Sometimes I’m embarrassed at what this sick political and judicial culture allows to persist when the rare chance to finally declare: “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! IT ENDS NOW!” is being pissed away on account of incompetence, a lack of moral fibre, or possibly a combination of both.

What about Brad Mix?  He may have fooled the committee, but there’s still that nasty business of having to testify at the upcoming CMT trial.